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    • The Germans, 1933-45
    • By: Milton Mayer
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 560 ratings
    • First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany....

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    • Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
    • By: Andrew Klavan
    • Narrated by: Andrew Klavan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In The Kingdom of Cain, crime novelist, screenwriter, and cultural critic Andrew Klavan explores how artists' imaginative engagement with the evil of murder in film and literature can point us to ways of living honestly, beautifully, and even joyfully in a dark world.

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    • By: Annabel Crabb
    • Narrated by: Annabel Crabb
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • 'I need a wife'. It's a common joke among women juggling work and family, but it's no joke....

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    • By: Sun Tzu
    • Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42,160 ratings
    • The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu....

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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,602 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
    • By: Graham Allison
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,103 ratings
    • When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: A rising power threatened to displace a ruling one....

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    • Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,689 ratings
    • A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark best sellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse....

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    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,886 ratings
    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

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    • By: Anne Moody
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 652 ratings
    • Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South....

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    • A History of the Greater United States
    • By: Daniel Immerwahr
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,654 ratings
    • Author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light....

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    • White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
    • By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 658 ratings
    • A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy....

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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • By: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 756 ratings
    • A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world....

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    • By: Toby Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,135 ratings
    • In this landmark work, one of the world's most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption....

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    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 581 ratings
    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 655 ratings
    • Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States....

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    • A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
    • By: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,056 ratings
    • What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine was dosed like Viagra....

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    • By: Henry Kissinger
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 37 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 329 ratings
    • A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China. The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy....

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    • The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
    • By: Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan
    • Narrated by: Traci Odom
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • From 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. Authors Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail....

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    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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